More than 50 blind or visually impaired people experienced art work through tactile tables, a scent wall, and magnification.
9News in Colorado picked up an interesting event. Denver Art Museum recently had a museum tour for visually impaired people. Usually, in the visual art world, this group of people are excluded from the opportunity to entice the aesthetics of visual arts. The museum prepared replicas of famous artworks so they could touch the surface to feel the brushstrokes of art masters.
As an art organization, we have never thought of presenting the art works to the visually impaired. Even if we want to present, we don’t have resources to do so. But it seems there are museums around the globe that are trying to present world-famous pieces (copies and replicas) to this particular group of audience. Museo del Prado in Madrid held an exhibition which displayed copies of artworks by Goya, Velázquez, Correggio, da Vinci, etc. (See the New York Times article on this event.)
Even though we are a small art gallery, it might be our time to find a way to deliver visual arts to anyone.